What started as a personal journey of a doctor turned patient morphed into a way to share what’s universal in dealing with cancer, in my case a nasty leukemia (CLL), a failed transplant and a successful clinical trial. The telling of my journey has become a journey to teach about CLL, related blood issues and all cancers. Please visit our new website http://cllsociety.org for the latest news and information. Smart patients get smart care™. If you want to reach me, email bkoffmanMD@gmail.com

Sunday, June 19, 2016

Dr, Bill Wierda on the Importance of Clinical Trials in CLL

I’m home from the European Hematology Association Congress in Copenhagen.

I received very positive feedback on my lecture and the preliminary data from our Reader Poll with many requests for more information. We plan to follow up with another survey, Seems the 1000 plus hematologists to whom I presented the data and the folks from industry really want to know what we patients think and want.

I attended several lectures on CLL, reviewed dozens of abstracts, and had some great interviews with world experts that I look forward to sharing with you in the near future.

After the last long day, I finally got out of the convention center long enough to walk along the harbor and see the famous The Little Mermaid statue.

This week in the Clinical Trials/The Basics section of our website we’ve posted an interview with Dr. Bill Wierda of MDACC where we talked about the value of clinical trials and how he approaches the discussion with patients about joining a clinical trial. You can read a summary of our discussion and watch my interview with Dr. Wierda here. http://cllsociety.org/2016/06/dr-william-wierda-clinical-trials-cll-chronic-lymphocytic-leukemia/

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BkoffmanMD@gmail.com
A family doc and husband of 1 and father of 4 and grandfather of 3 who loves his family and his work. I live with no TV and no microwave, but wouldn't last a minute without friends, art, music, books and the beach. Hockey, good jokes and exotic travel are pretty important too. Writing, Talmud and Zen give meaning to my life. My diet is organic vegan, often raw. I hope the blog makes the load lighter and the path both safer and more fun for those who read it or are going to similar places. I want to help. I crave your comments. If you are new to the blog, check out the portrait my son Will painted (it is the first post), and my very first text post.